Challenge No 14 - Christmas in July

First of all, thanks to everyone who joined us this week with our sketch.  I've had a frantic couple of weeks and I'm sorry to those of you I haven't had chance to visit.  This fortnight's challenge is sponsored by the very wonderful Prairie Fairy who kindly sent us some images to work with.

The theme this week is Christmas so let's get all festive.  I bet most of you out there have already started thinking about Christmas cards, lol.  The prize from Roberta is 5 free images of your choice and here's what Roberta had to say about herself

Hello! I am Roberta from Prairie Fairy Designs. I am a new digital stamp company featuring artwork not only created by me but also my two kids, ages 8 and 11. They are featured on the site as the Fairy Princess and the Prairie Prince.

I have been an artist for as long as I can remember and have always loved to create.  Two years ago my sister-in-law invited me to a rubber stamp party. I laughed and said "Maybe I will buy something if I can use it to stamp on canvases.". Needless to say, I was hooked! Two years later and a lot of learning about computers, I have finally accomplished my goal. 

While digital stamping is relatively new in the papercrafting scene, it is what I believe to be such an amazing tool. Printed images have such clarity and vibrancy and gone is the need to re stamp an image because you didn't press hard enough or maybe you pressed too hard! They are also a lot easier to store and they can be reprinted over and over again. The fact that you can rotate and flip files, print them off the size of a postage stamp or as large as a scrapbook page makes them such a versatile medium. It is my sincere hope that I can help anyone who has hesitations about using digital images to embrace these amazing creative tools. If you have any questions about going digital, check out the site and the blog for more information. So head on over to http://www.prairiefairydesigns.com/ and check it out!

So would you like to see what the team came up with?  Here goes

Shirley Chalmers

Patricia St Martin

Donna

Issy

Kym

Well, I hope that's given you some ideas.  The challenge will close at midnight BST (British Summer Time) on 18th July 2010 and the rules are

1. The card must be for a man/boy.
2. You need to follow the theme/sketch that is set.
3. It must be a new card.

Leave your name and a direct link to your entry (not just to your blog) below.  If the link tool is not there for some reason then leave the details in the comments and I'll add you in when I'm doing the draw.

DT Call now closed

Thankyou to everyone who has entered.  We will be busy looking at your blogs over the weekend and will aim to announce the winners on Monday.

New DT member and a call for some more!

As I mentioned in an earlier post, one of our DT members, the wonderful Viv, has decided to step down to concentrate on all things pink (only joking).  I'm still really sad that Viv is going, but happy to announce that we have a new member, Kym.  Please take a look at her blog and give her a warm welcome.


I've also decided to expand our team slightly and am putting out a call for 3 new Design Team members.  All members will need to be able to make one card fortnightly for the regular challenge and to comment on the entrants as much as possible.  The fortnightly challenge will be based on a theme (xmas, colour combo, etc.) or a sketch and sometimes we are provided with images from the sponsor to use.


Anyone interested should leave a comment on this post with a link to your entry. Remember we're interested in boys/mens cards. The closing date for entries is midnight Friday 2nd July 2010.  I'll announce the winners on Monday 5th July and the first card will be due Monday 19th July.

So, good luck everyone. I can't wait to see the responses and even if your not entering, please spread the word around. Thanks so much.

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Challenge 12 - Winner & top 3

Sorry I'm late with this post but you can imagine with 247 (!!!) entries it was not the easiest of tasks to pick a top 3.  Id like to thank our sponsor Pink Gem Designs again and hope you all took the opportunity to pop over to her shop and have a look around.

The winner chosen by Random.org is

~February Lane~.  congratulations please email me your name and address on cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk and I'll get your prize out straight away.

Our top 3, which was extremely difficult, are

102 - Katie Tate

10 - Rach J

116 - Grace N

Congratulations ladies, please grab the top 3 badge from the sidebar and add it to your own.  The standard was so high and I'd like to thank you all for your continued support and enthusiasm for our blog.  Please pop over to our current challenge and have a go.

Challenge No. 13 - Sketch Challenge

Phew, we have been absolutely bowled over by the sheer volume of entries we had for the last challenge.  I do hope you stick with us for this challenge which has a sketch to follow.  As usual with sketches, feel free to rotate or skew it however you like, so long as we can see the connection to the sketch it's fine.

Our sponsor for this challenge is the fabulous Meljen's Designs.  Please visit Melissa's shop and take a look at her images.  They really are wonderful and lovely to work with.

The winner will be able to choose 4 digis from Meljen's Designs.  Here's some inspiration from our Design Team.  Hope you like them....

Donna

Issy

Patricia

Shirley

Viv

This is going to be Viv's last challenge.  I'm sure you'll all agree that she's going to be greatly missed.  Best of luck for the future, Viv.

So there you have it.  Hope that's got some ideas flowing.  The challenge will close at midnight BST (British Summer Time) on 4th July 2010 and the rules are

1. The card must be for a man/boy.
2. You need to follow the theme/sketch that is set.
3. It must be a new card.

Leave your name and a direct link to your entry (not just to your blog) in Mr Linky below.  If Mr Linky is not there for some reason then leave the details in the comments and I'll add you in when I'm doing the draw.

New look & a new challenge blog

What do you think of the new look?  I've still got some tweaking to do but it's getting there.

Anyway, I just wanted to let you all know that I have a new challenge starting up on my other blog.  The first challenge is Monday 14th and we have a really great prize to kick us off.  Please come along and join in with us.

And don't forget about our current challenge over here.  There's still plenty of time to enter and we look very popular this week.

Challenge no.11 - Winner

It's that time again....Before we announce the winner, though, I'd just like to say a big thankyou to our sponsor, The Stamping Boutique.  If you haven't visited their shop, please do because the images they have are wonderful.

As usual, the winner has been picked using Random.org

Congratulations, Ane Lene, please email me on cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk with your choice of 5 digistamps and I'll pass them on.

Now our top three, this week we have,

An

Anne H

Theresa P

Congratulations, girls.  Grab the badge from the sidebar and add it to your own.  We look forward to seeing everyone's Father's Day cards for this week's challenge.